different between pellicle vs pell

English

Etymology

From Latin pellicula, from pellis (“skin”). Doublet of pellicule.

Noun

pellicle (plural pellicles)

1. A thin skin or film.
2. A skin or coating of proteins on the surface of meat to be smoked, improving the surface adhesion.
3. Cuticle, the hard protective outer layer of certain life forms.
4. The skin of a mushroom cap.
5. (mycology) The outermost layer of a mushroom, often used only for a surface that is viscid and easily peels off.
6. The growth on the surface of a liquid culture.
7. The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film.
8. (optics) A thin plastic membrane used as a beam splitter or protective cover.

Related terms

• pelt
• pelisse
• pell
• pellagra
• pellage
• peltry

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-. Distantly related to fell and film.

Noun

pell (plural pells)

1. A fur or hide.
2. A lined cloak or its lining.
3. A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
   • 1835, Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty?s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward III.: A.D. 1370, page xi,

     The clerk of the pell (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer?s gift) keepeth the Pells in parchment, called Pelles Receptæ, wherein every teller?s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to charge the teller with so much money as in the said bill is set downe.

     He also anciently kept another pell, called Pellis Exitus, wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.

4. (Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
5. An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.

Derived terms

• clerk of the pells

Related terms

• pelt
• fell
• pelisse
• pellagra
• pellage
• pellicle
• peltry

Etymology 2

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Verb

pell (third-person singular simple present pells, present participle pelling, simple past and past participle pelled)

1. To pelt; to knock about.

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Breton

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh pell (“far”).

Adverb

pell

1. far

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin pellis, pellem, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pe?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

pell f (plural pells)

1. (anatomy) skin
2. pelt

Derived terms

• pellofa

Further reading

• “pell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

pell

1. singular imperative of pellen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of pellen

Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?el-.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /p??/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pe??/, /p??/

Adjective

pell (feminine singular pell, plural pell, equative pelled, comparative pellach, superlative pellaf)

1. far, distant

Derived terms

• rheolydd pell

Mutation

References